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Daniel R. Headrick

The Invisible Weapon

Name: The Invisible Weapon
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Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945

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The political history of telecommunications from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of World War II.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

1 Telecommunications and International Relations

Characteristics of Electrical Communications

Telecommunications and World History

International Telecommunications as a Field of Study

2 New Technology

Origins of the Telegraph

International Telegraphic Cooperation

The First Submarine Telegraph Cables

The Mediterranean Cables

The First Atlantic Cables

The Red Sea Cable

Telegraphs to India

Conclusion

3 The Expansion of the World Cable Network, 1866-1895

The Technology of Cables

The Atlantic Cables

The Cable Companies

Cables to India and Australia

Cable Rivalries in the West Indies and Latin America

Across Russia to Japan

Commercial Codes and the International Telegraph Union

Conclusion

4 Telegraphy and Imperialism in the Late Nineteenth Century

The Telegraph in India

The Telegraph in Indochina

Cables and News in the French West Indies

The Telegraph in China

The East African Cables

The West African Cables

Cables and Colonial Control

Conclusion

5 Crisis at the Turn of the Century, 1895-1901

Telegraphy and Diplomacy

British Cable Strategy to 1898

Telegraphic Delays and French Imperialism

Germany and the Azores Affair

The Spanish-American War

The Fashoda Incident

The British Strategic Cable Report of 1898

The Boer War

6 The Great Powers and the Cable Crisis, 1900-1913

The British Pacific Cable and the "All-Red" Routes

British Cable Strategy, 1902-1914

The American Cables

France and the Cable Crisis

Germany and the Cable Crisis

Conclusion

7 The Beginnings of Radio, 1895-1914

Marconi and the Birth of Wireless Telegraphy

The Marconi Monopoly and the Reaction of the Powers

Technological Change and Commercial Rivalries

The U.S. Navy and Radio to 1908

The Continuous Ware, 1908-1914

French Colonial Wireless

German Long-Distance and Colonial Radio

The British Imperial Wireless Chain

Conclusion

8 Cables and Radio in World War I

The Jitters of July 1914

Allied Attacks on German Communications

German Attacks on Allied Communications

Allied Communications during the War

Censorship

Propaganda

Conclusion

9 Communications Intelligence in World War I

Government Cryptology before 1914

Communications Intelligence on Land

British Naval Interception and Direction-Finding

German Codes and British Cryptanalysis in 1914

British Naval Intelligence, 1915-1916

The U-Boat War, 1917-1918

German Communications Intelligence

The Zimmerman Telegram

10 Conflicts and Settlements, 1919-1923

The Paris Peace Conference of 1919

The Washington Conferences of 1920-1922

The Struggle over Cables to Latin America

The Radio Corporation of America

British Radio, 1919~1924

German and French Radio to 1924

Radio in Latin America and China

Conclusion

11 Technological Upheavals and Commercial Rivalries, 1924-1939

The Distribution of Cables in the World in 1923

Cable Technology in the 1920s

The New Cables, 1924-1929

ITT and the Telephones

The British Reaction

French Colonial Shortwave

The International Impact of Shortwave

The British Communications Merger

Responses to the British Merger

The British Dilemma: Profits versus Security

Conclusion

12 Communications Intelligence in World War II

British and German Communications Intelligence to 1936

Cipher Machines

The Approach of War, 1936-1939

The Outbreak of War, 1939-1940

British Communications Intelligence in Wartime

German Communications Intelligence in Wartime

The Battles of Britain and North Africa

German Spies and Allied Radio Deception

Funkspiele, Resistance, and the Normandy Landing

The Soviet Rings

Conclusion

13 The War at Sea

The Cable War

Communications and Naval Warfare in the Atlantic

The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1944

American Communications Intelligence before Pearl Harbor

From Pearl Harbor to Midway

After Midway

14 The Changing of the Guard

The American Expansion

Strategic Cables to North Africa and Europe

The Retreat of Britain

The Organization of Postwar Communications

Conclusion

15 Telecommunications, Information, and Security

Bibliography Essay

Books on Submarine Telegraph Cables

Books on Radio and Telecommunications

Communications Intelligence

Primary Sources

Index

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

01. September 2012

Sprache

englisch

Seitenanzahl

300

Autor/Autorin

Daniel R. Headrick

Verlag/Hersteller

Oxford University Press

Produktart

kartoniert

Gewicht

459 g

Größe (L/B/H)

234/156/16 mm

ISBN

9780199930333

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Politikwissenschaft und politische Theorie

Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte

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Portrait

Daniel R. Headrick

Daniel R. Headrick is Professor Emeritus of Social Science and History at Roosevelt University and author of numerous books on world history, including Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present, Technology: A World History (OUP, 2009), When Information Came of Age (OUP, 2000), The Tentacles of Progress (OUP, 1988), and The Tools of Empire (OUP, 1981).

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